When I say that I’ve tried every extreme adventure I can image, it’s not true. There are still several adrenaline-pumping exploits I dream about experiencing. They are on my life bucket list but I’m preparing to add a few to my 2015 list. Do you have a lot of nerve? Include a few of these on your list and let’s see…

Today is a sad day, since this will be my last posting as a featured writer here on Bucket List Publications. Over the last few months, Bucket List readers have accompanied me on a stroll down Memory Lane, and also on a couple of new adventures. Together we’ve seen Yosemite, California, threatened by the terrible Rim Fire. This brought home…

I was a high school English teacher. For eight years, that’s how I defined myself; for the rest of my life before that, I was a student. I was content in life. I was content with my career. I was content with my location. I was content with my extra-curricular activities. I was content in my marriage. I was content. I…

I went to see the new movie Gravity this weekend (which looked stunning, by the way). It got me thinking about what is undoubtedly my biggest Bucket List accomplishment to date: witnessing the launch of a Space Shuttle with my own two eyes. From the moment I first learned of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I knew I had…

Anybody that knows anything about me will know that I’m not a very spiritual person, or at least in the traditional sense of the word. I’m a strong willed atheist, I don’t believe in horoscopes and the zodiac, Feng Shui is another name for good taste and even yoga hurts just to watch. If asked about my spirituality I might…

Niagara Falls has to be one of the most popular Bucket List destinations in all the world. There are lost tribes living in the Amazon, with absolutely no links to the outside world, that have Niagara Falls on their Bucket List. I count myself very lucky to live these days within two hours of these iconic waterfalls, and never tire…

Living in Istanbul has proven to be a big change in my life. Not only am I now living between two continents – enjoying the perks of Asia while retaining the commodities of Europe, – but especially I am now adjusting to a city of millions of people. An overcrowded, huge exciting city instead of the peaceful calm town where…

Prior to 2011 I had not been up a mountain, at least not in living memory. But since moving to Switzerland I’ve been captivated by the Alps, Europe’s greatest mountain range. Having an insatiable hunger to experience its great peaks for myself I set out to find its most compelling vistas, with three summits in particular coming to the fore….

The open road, an endless playlist, salty snacks and a few friends–what more do you need for a road trip across America? With my V.W. packed and ready to go, George (aka Dad), Tallie (the terrier) and I hopped in the car in Santa Cruz, California. Our itinerary? Cross the southwestern United States in five days, and end in…

“That would definitely have been on my Bucket List, if only I’d known about it beforehand.” Have you ever looked back on an adventure that came out of the blue, and thought something along these lines? Well, that’s exactly what happened to me in Mexico two years ago. Several times, in fact. The northern half of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has…